[Arcaten]

What is most surprising to me about these stories today is how uncommon NDAs are. I read somewhere that 20% of workers in the US have signed one.

I don't know if this is a common experience, but my employer recently began putting NDAs in place and, in retrospect, I feel they took advantage of the ignorance of most of the employees (including me). They insisted that the NDA was "standard," managers told us that there was no room for negotiation and pushed to have us sign immediately (eventually relented to having it signed by end of the following day).